Prof. Silvia Arber, Neuroscientist at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, receives the Pradel Research Award 2018. She receives the award by the National Academy of Sciences for her groundbreaking research on the organization and function of circuits regulating motor behavior.
Yesterday, the University of Basel awarded this year's Teaching Excellence Awards to honor lecturers and staff for their contribution to teaching.
This year the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO has again selected two scientists from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel to become “EMBO Young Investigators”. Prof. Marek Basler and Prof. Clemens Cabernard are two from a total of 23 scientists from around Europe who, as talented scientists, will participate in the “EMBO Young Investigator program”.
The infection biologist Petr Broz, Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, has received one of the highly regarded Career Development Awards from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).
Prof. Michael N. Hall from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel is is one of the laureates of this year’s “Canada Gairdner International Award”. The award recognizes his discovery of the protein kinase TOR (Target of Rapamycin) and its role as a key regulator of cell growth.